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Category: Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles: Maggie MacInnes

Angel Romero July 16, 2017 No Comments clarsachharpMaggie MacInnesScotlandScottish music

Maggie MacInnes sings and plays the clarsach. She was born in Glasgow and now lives in Ayrshire. She comes from a long line of Gaelic…

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Artist Profiles: Luis Di Matteo

Angel Romero July 16, 2017 No Comments bandoneónLuis Di MatteotangoUruguay

Luis Di Matteo is one of the great bandoneonistas from South America. Living in Montevideo, Uruguay, Di Matteo has carried bandoneon music the furthest in…

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Artist Profiles: Louis Mhlanga

Angel Romero July 16, 2017 No Comments Louis MhlangaSouth African musicworld musicZimbabwe

Louis Mhlanga was born November 10, 1956 in Harare. He is a South Africa-based Zimbabwean award-winning guitarist and producer. Mhlanga taught himself playing the guitar…

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Son Jarocho Masters Los Cenzontles

Angel Romero July 16, 2017 No Comments Los CenzontlesMexican musicson jarochoUnited States of America

Cenzontle is the Aztec word for mockingbird, the bird of a hundred voices. Like the cenzontle, Los Cenzontles interpret a variety of regional Mexican styles.…

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Artist Profiles: Loop Guru

Angel Romero July 16, 2017 No Comments global electronicaLoop GuruUnited Kingdom

Loop Guru core members Salman Gita and Jamuud have been working together for many years. They function as a collective rarely playing two consecutive gigs…

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Artist Profiles: Lo Sirong

Angel Romero July 16, 2017 No Comments Lo SirongTaiwanTaiwanese music

Lo Sirong is an award-winning poet and singer-songwriter from Miaoli. One of Taiwan’s rare female singer-songwriters, Lo draws inspiration from her Hakka heritage and upbringing.…

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Artist Profiles: Liz Carroll

Angel Romero July 16, 2017 No Comments Celtic musicfiddleIrish folk musicLiz CarrollUnited States of America

Born in Chicago to Irish parents Liz Carroll was a natural at the fiddle right from the start. At age 18 she amazed the Celtic…

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Artist Profiles: Little Hatch

Angel Romero July 8, 2017 No Comments bluesharmonicaLittle HatchUnited States of America

Little Hatch likely was the best harmonica player ever to make Kansas City home. He died on January 14, 2003 at 81 years-old. Little Hatch…

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Artist Profiles: Lin Sheng-xiang

Angel Romero July 8, 2017 No Comments Lin Sheng-xiangTaiwanTaiwanese musicworld music

Lin Sheng-xiang is one of the most prominent folk musicians in Taiwan today. As a founding member of the groundbreaking Labor Exchange Band Sheng-xiang fused…

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Artist Profiles: Lhasa

Angel Romero July 7, 2017 No Comments LhasaMexican musicUnited States of Americaworld music

Her story began in Big Indian, a tiny village perched among the Catskill Mountains of New York although she didn’t stay there long. Lhasa’s (full…

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